Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Beauty, Flower, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.383

• The vain poet is of the opinion that nothing of his can be too much: he sends to you basketful after basketful of juiceless fruit, covered with scentless flowers.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Flower, Too Much, Fruit

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.111

• As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Flower, Men, Smell

  Walter Savage Landor (1846). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.377

• The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Flower, Cities, Soul

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.73

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